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three-cushion billiards — noun plural but usually singular in construction also three cushions : carom billiards in which the cue ball must touch one or more cushions three different times plus the two object balls to score a count … Useful english dictionary
Carom billiards — Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole and, in some cases, used as a synonym for the game of straight rail from which many carom games derive, is the overarching title of a family of billiards games generally… … Wikipedia
UMB World Three-cushion Championship — The UMB World Three cushion Championship is a professional carom billiards tournament in the discipline of three cushion billiards, organized mostly annually by the Union Mondiale de Billard. Years ago, there were similar world championships held … Wikipedia
Cushion caroms — Jacob Schaefer, Sr. tobacco card, circa 1880s Cushion caroms (or cushion carom billiards)[1] sometimes called by its original name, the indirect game,[2] is a carom billiards discipline generally played on a cloth covered, 5 foot ×… … Wikipedia
carom billiards — ▪ game also called French billiards, game played with three balls (two white and one red) on a table without pockets, in which the object is to drive one of the white balls (cue ball) into both of the other balls. Each carom thus… … Universalium
carom billiards — noun plural but usually singular in construction : any of several games of billiards played with a cue and three balls on a pocketless table, points being scored by a player s causing the cue ball to carom from one object ball to another compare… … Useful english dictionary
Three-ball — (or 3 ball , colloquially) is a pocket billiards folk game played with three standard pool Cuegloss|Object ball|object balls and a Cuegloss|Cue ball|cue ball. The goal is to Cuegloss|Pocket|pocket the three object balls in as few shots as… … Wikipedia
Billiard Games — ▪ 2006 Introduction Carom Billiards. In January 2005 Sonny Cho of Flushing, N.Y., won his first U.S. championship in three cushion (carom) billiards by beating defending champion Pedro Piedrabuena 50–45 in the deciding game. Piedrabuena… … Universalium
Cochran, Welker — ▪ American billiards player born Oct. 7, 1897, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. died July 26, 1960, Belmont, Calif. prominent American billiards player who, with his rivals Willie Hoppe and Jake Schaefer, Jr., dominated the game for the first three… … Universalium
Cue sports at the 2006 Asian Games — The cue sports of snooker, English billiards, and three cushion carom for men, as well as eight ball and nine ball pool for both men and women, were contested at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar from December 4 to December 11. All events were… … Wikipedia
